Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fifty years ago, a glitchy yet terrifying animatronic shark persuaded movie audiences never to go in the water again. Luckily—for the photographer Tod Papageorge, at least—it didn’t keep people off the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. Sean Combs mouthed “thank you” to the jurors, his hands clasped in prayer. The intricacies…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. On June 24, at 6:50 A.M., Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that might otherwise have been…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At one point in “Sorry, Baby,” a new film written and directed by, and starring, the actor and comedian Eva Victor, the main character, an English professor named Agnes, has an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Let me tell you about my mother. For twenty-five years, five, sometimes six, days a week, she drove the same fifty miles, following the main roads and back roads of her…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With “M3GAN 2.0,” the franchising of the 2022 sci-fi-horror mashup “M3GAN” suffers from sequelitis. At least it shows its symptoms clearly: inflammation and swelling. In the first film, Gemma (Allison Williams),…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the derivative. This…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You don’t have to like bullfighting to watch “Afternoons of Solitude” with fascination, any more than you have to like crime to enjoy a film noir. Full disclosure: I squeamishly watch…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a special kind of movie that’s inextricably linked to where it’s filmed. The locations aren’t just picturesque settings for action but part of the subject—as if the film were both…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “When I was ten years old, I looked up the word ‘homosexual’ in the family dictionary,” Robert Giard writes in the introduction to his book “Particular Voices.” “Symbolic act: I’ve been…
